War Against the People ─ Israel, the Palestinians and Global Pacification

War Against the People focuses on Israel's unique role in international affairs, highlighting how it promotes a global system of militarism and domestic control – a form of "global Palestine."

Jeff Halper investigates how Israel exports the weaponry and techniques of occupation. He shows how it uses the West Bank and Gaza as a "laboratory" for the development of these weapons, instruments of population control and models of permanent pacification. These are used not only to armies but internal security agencies and police forces as well. Halper locates Israel's system of pacification within the broader project of global "transcapital pacification."

War Against the People provides a valuable window into the workings of pacification on a global level and the latest in military and counter-insurgency doctrine, outlining critical aspects of global politics that activists often miss in their struggle for global justice.

Jeff Halper is a leading figure in the Israeli peace movement, the head of the Israeli Committee Against House Demolitions (ICAHD) and an anthropologist. He is the author of An Israeli in Palestine: Resisting Dispossession, Redeeming Israel (Pluto, 2010) and Obstacles to Peace (2005).